Experiment brings new crops to Cambridgeshire fields
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A once-unthinkable farming experiment is underway in Cambridgeshire, England, where ecologist Nadine Mitschunas is harvesting what's likely the UK's first homegrown rice crop. Mitschunas, working with local farmers Craig and Sarah Taylor, planted nine rice varieties from places as far-flung as Japan, Colombia, and Italy in four...